Curlew Island (Andaman Islands)
island in India
Curlew Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the North and Middle Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The island lies 150 km (93 mi) north of Port Blair.
History
Curlew Island had a wildlife station to monitor birds, with permanent inhabitants.
The station was evacuated at the end of 2015 due to budget discontinued.
The island is now uninhabited.
Geography
The island belongs to the Stewart Sound Group.
Administration
Politically, Curlew Island, along neighboring Stewart Sound Group, is part of Diglipur Taluk. The village was located on the northern tip of the islet.
Demographics
The island is now uninhabited.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Curlew Island (Andaman Islands)” as island in India. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as island in India. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28178877. Authority coordinates are 13.003, 92.912. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015.
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This entry incorporates text from “Curlew Island (Andaman Islands)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.